The only problem I see with it is the usual pitfall of LLMs.

“We’re not stupid”, the AI fans say. “Of course we look through the output carefully, and will meticulously make sure it makes sense.” And then they don’t actually do that.

“It’s only one of the tools at our disposal, don’t worry!” …so what other tools did these giant AI fans use, again? Oh.

I mean, if people genuinely actually use LLMs just as one tool among many, and actually genuinely find a way to use them to improve their own output, it’s great! (For example, I’m using AI for image captioning and it cuts down a lot of work.)

I’m just saying that I often need to take claims that people are using these tools responsibly with some grains of salt, though.

Ohhhhhh the newbies don’t remember EsounD (Enlightenment Enlightened Sound Daemon). Basically, it was an attempt at doing PulseAudio-esque stuff way back in the OSS era. Which is to say, it just supported software mixing of multiple audio sources, because OSS usually only allowed single process to output audio. EsounD was janky and didn’t work well, obviously. Probably the neatest thing about it was that it exposed the mixed output stream to any other app, so that made visualisers much easier to make (edit: another thing that newbies in this day and age don’t realise, but I cannot emphasise enough how crucial visualisers were for the late 1990s / early 2000s music experience). ALSA basically supported hardware mixing (if available) out of the box, so of course it immediately became my favourite.

Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.

I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)

In YouTube, Berm Peak channel folks bought an e-bike from a bankrupt app company, and went on to replace the control unit (plus sensors and the panel). Doable but not painless. Folks in the comments pointed out that a lot of the control units are reprogrammable, though - swap the SIM card and send new settings over SMS.

Edit: Here’s the video

I literally had to write a clock app on my own because Windows clock is pretty bad.

I was thinking that they’ll just replace the clock with Copilot eventually.

Windows 11: “It’s 11 pm sharp. I know that because I looked at the RTC.”

Windows 12: “It’s 11 pm sharp. That’s a phrase people like to say, apparently.”

…Don’t give Microsoft any ideas.

Maybe, just maybe, I use a lighter to light half a dozen candles, so I can get to the right headspace to play Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader?

Yup. The turtle in the comic is sad, not because of the eviction notice (which is clearly bogus, and annoying to deal with, but the buddy probably takes consolation in that they’ll outlive the clueless landlord) but because the note is in an awkward place they can’t reach. Turtles are unfortunately not very nimble.

Did you know that alphas have low penetrating power?

…Why are you looking at that Andrew Tate picture again? I’m talking about nuclear radiation.

/stolen joke

It’s a “beginner-friendly” distro so people might subconsciously think you should “graduate” to use something “better”.

Which is ridiculous, of course. No reason to switch if it works for you!

Crackheads? Looks like it was designed by methheads.

My first reaction was, damn, is that from that episode of Top Gear where they made the stupidest RVs imaginable? What janky nonsense is this, I wondered before reading the comments.

That’s a bit weird. They didn’t get this worked up about being called “Micro$oft” or something. This is probably hitting the nerve in a completely different way!

I recommend you try Affinity. Absolutely loved Affinity Publisher 2, haven’t tried yet how well Affinity 3 works for print work but I assume it’s more or less same as before.

Scribus is a noteworthy open source alternative.

If I want to maintain my Windows computer, do I need a new computer?

You can install Linux alongside Windows if you have the disk space to spare (a whole separate ssd/hard drive, a free disk partition on your existing drive, or you can split an existing Windows partition).

For experimenting, you can also use a virtual machine (like VirtualBox). Note that you might not get the best possible performance this way. Most Linux distros also have live systems, which means you can boot them from USB stick and use them before you actually install them.

If I was already looking for a laptop, do I just buy the cheapest one and reformat?

Don’t waste money on the cheap junk - just get a used laptop!

Does Distro utilize Touch Screen?

Haven’t tried. Probably!

Skyrim actually supported a load of commands . And it worked pretty reliably with my weird foreign accent.

(Ekvip duul wepöns. …Ekvip bou. Kvik seiv.)

It actually made sense to use those a lot of times. I felt it went way past the gimmick territory!

Back when the original Tux drawing was made, we didn’t have boot partitions. In LILO days, the bootloader barely fit in the MBR and the kernel was located and loaded with sheer magic incomprehensible to most mortals. So that’s why Tux has no shoes.

Someone should make a heartwarming movie about a creepy doll that no one likes, but then finally someone feels sad about the poor doll and buys it, and it’s all fine in the end after all.

Interesting to see how this pans out.

Minecraft really isn’t a game where microtransactions work, at least on the ethical stuff. It’s a game about creativity and sharing, which means a lot of people won’t be bothered with mtx.

The elephant in the room is that there’s a giant ecosystem of paid server nonsense, most of which is basically pay-to-win and gambling for school kids, which Microsoft and Mojang somehow approve. They just think it’s unfair they don’t get a cut, hence the push for Bedrock marketplace and servers. Thing is, if Microsoft really starts seriously sticking their fingers into that pie, I really hope the regulators start waking up.

(Someone on the interweb:) “Hey, you should try KDE Connect”

(Me:) Uh, I don’t use Linux on my laptop and that’s the computer that I use the most

(S:) “Well it also runs on Windows.”

(Me:) Really?.. Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can’t remember what it’s called this week